Despite My Suggestions, Texas Still Exists.

Is there too much lead in the water in Texas? Is that what it is? What the hell else could possible be wrong with them?

You’ve probably heard about this already, but the Texas State Board of Education gets to make “suggestions” to the publishers of school text books and since Texas is so god damn big and has so many school children, publishers basically just write their books to comply with Texas and everybody else in the country just has to deal with it.

Here are a couple of the most are you fucking kidding me? suggestions:

- Thomas Jefferson no longer included among writers influencing the nation’s intellectual origins. Jefferson, a deist who helped pioneer the legal theory of the separation of church and state, is not a model founder in the board’s judgment. Among the intellectual forerunners to be highlighted in Jefferson’s place: medieval Catholic philosopher St. Thomas Aquinas, Puritan theologian John Calvin and conservative British law scholar William Blackstone. Heavy emphasis is also to be placed on the founding fathers having been guided by strict Christian beliefs.

- A recommendation to include country and western music among the nation’s important cultural movements. The popular black genre of hip-hop is being dropped from the same list.

If your stomach is amenable to bullshit, here is the article.

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